The successful auditionees chosen by the producers were then invited back to the last set of auditions that took place in front of the judges and a live audience in June 2015.
Following bootcamp was the super home visits round in London, where each judge reduced their five acts to three, with help from guest mentors Simon Cowell, Olly Murs and Rita Ora.
On 25 April 2015, Ronan Keating confirmed in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph that he would not be returning for season 7 as he wanted to focus on his music career.
But I'm working on a new solo album and different projects so I can't make it back this year sadly.
[6] On 1 May 2015, Redfoo announced on his Facebook page that he would also not be returning as he wanted to focus on other projects including a new album.
"[8] Blunt previously appeared on season 6 as a guest mentor for Minogue's Groups category during the home visits round.
[9] Open auditions in front of the show's producers took place in 13 cities and ran from 31 January 2015 to 10 March 2015.
[11] The auditionees chosen by the producers were then invited back to the last set of auditions that took place in front of the judges and a live studio audience.
[19] After each performance, the mentor for that category decided if that act deserved to take a seat as one of their top five to go through to the super home visits.
[citation needed] In the Girls category, Carla Wehbe and Chloe Papandrea were swapped for Maddison Milewski and Shannon Hancock.
Big T failed to find the correct key at the beginning of the song and was left deflated once the performance had ended.
After the performance, Blunt criticized Big T by telling him that he was in danger of sounding like a "cruise ship" act.
[citation needed] Big T's mentor Isaak then lost control and foul-mouthed at Blunt.